Park District Appeals Ruling On Techny

January 16, 1990

NORTHFIELD — The Northfield Park District has appealed a ruling blocking the district from getting back more than 1,000 acres ceded in 1976 to the Glenview and Northbrook Park Districts in the Techny area.

Cook County Circuit Judge Anthony Scotillo ruled in December that the Northfield Park District had waited too long to challenge the land transfer, west of Waukegan Road on the north and south sides of Willow Road, and that the statute of limitations had expired.

But the park district contends in its petition filed Friday with the Illinois Appellate Court that the statute of limitations does not apply to this case because the transfer was illegal, and that Glenview and Northbrook would not suffer harm if they gave the land back, according to spokesmen for Friedman & Holtz, a Chicago law firm representing the Northfield Park District.

The land, largely vacant and owned by two religious owners, was not on the tax rolls and in an unincorporated area at the time of the transfer.

It is now is zoned for extensive commercial and residential development. Northbrook annexed 770 acres north of Willow last summer, and Glenview is expected to do likewise to 286 acres south of Willow at a Village Board meeting Tuesday night.